Gordon Smith

Republican Senator Gordon Smith of Oregon voted with the overwhelming majority of Democrats Thursday in an effort to set a timetable to withdraw American troops from Iraq. His side lost 50-48, but he had the pithy quote for the press:

“Setting specific dates for withdrawal is unwise, but what is worse is remaining mired in the quicksand of the Sunni-Shia civil war.”

How will Karen Hughes spin that one for the rest of the world?

Here's an idea: does Smith look French to you?


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